Press
Covering the festival, shooting it or creating with us? Start with the press review and the fact sheet below. Accreditation has three routes, each with its own form. Media requests sent before 1 December are answered by 11 December.
Press review
The 2024 and 2025 editions in the Belgian press. Each article opens on the media's own site, in this tab.
Photo: Tom Jacomelli 
Photo: Nicola Vail 
Photo: Tom Jacomelli
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BX1
Le festival FCKNYE débute à Brussels Expo avec 70.000 festivaliers attendus
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BRUZZ
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Paris Match Belgique
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Forbes Belgique
FCKNYE : Comment trois Carolos ont bâti le plus grand festival de Nouvel An au monde
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La DH
Les organisateurs de la FCKNYE, le plus grand festival de Nouvel An, sont des Carolos
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La DH · Belga
Plus de 67.000 fêtards attendus pour les trois jours du festival du Nouvel An bruxellois
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La DH
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La Libre · Belga
Three routes in
No pass for personal projects, portfolios or school work. If you cover the festival for a media outlet, shoot for the festival, or post on your own channels, there's a route for you.
You work for a media outlet and cover the festival for it. Requests sent before 1 December are answered by 11 December at the latest; after 11 December, they're not considered.
Request media accreditationNo media outlet, and you shoot photo or video for the festival and its communication, aftermovie included. It's the only way to shoot at the festival without a media outlet.
Join the content teamYou're a creator or influencer with a collaboration, partnership or invitation request, posted on your own channels: Reels, TikTok, stories, posts.
Pitch a collaborationThe team reviews every request and replies by email. Sending a form doesn't guarantee a pass or access. Outside these three routes, no photo or video pass is issued.
Read the press answersFCKNYE Festival in brief
FCKNYE Festival is a New Year festival held indoors at Brussels Expo, Brussels, since 31 December 2010. The 2026 edition runs on 30 and 31 December 2026 and 1 January 2027 on five stages: Count:Down, The Box, Bazaar, Loud Machine and Resolution. Teletech hosts Count:Down on 1 January. Minimum age: 16. Tickets: tickets.fcknyefestival.com.
- Dates
- 30 Dec to 01 Jan
- Venue
- Brussels Expo
- Festival-goers
- 75,000
- Stages
- 5
- Artists
- 110+
- Acts
- 81
- Nationalities
- 50+
- Camping
- Indoor
Press contact and resources
Reach the press team and find the full story and every past edition of the festival.
Write to the press team through the contact form, with Press and media as the topic. The team answers by email.
Contact the press teamHow one Brussels night in 2010 became three days at Brussels Expo: the full story, the figures and the films.
Read the full storyEvery edition since 2010, with its venue, its stages, who played and its poster, on one timeline.
Explore the archivePress answers
Through the media accreditation form. You must be affiliated with a media outlet. The festival then accepts or turns down your request, and you get the decision by email.
Deadlines: every request sent before 1 December is processed by 11 December at the latest. Requests sent after 11 December aren't considered.
No media outlet? Accreditation isn't possible, but you can put yourself forward for the official content team with the content team form.
The festival doesn't give photo or video passes for personal projects, portfolios or school projects, even unpaid ones, or just to come and shoot.
To create content at FCKNYE Festival (Dec 30, 31 & Jan 1), there are three routes, each with its own form:
1. You're affiliated with a media outlet and covering the festival for it: the media accreditation form
2. You have no media outlet and want to produce content for the festival and its communication: the content team form
3. You're a content creator or influencer offering a collaboration, partnership or invitation request, posted on your own channels: the creator collaboration form
Run your own media account on social (news account, info page) and asking for an invitation in exchange for coverage on your channels? Both routes can apply: media accreditation if you're affiliated with a media outlet, creator collaboration if it's posted on your own channels. Pick the one that fits you best.
Outside these three routes, no photo or video pass is issued. The team reviews every request. Sending a form doesn't guarantee selection or access.
The team brings together photographers, videographers and content creators who produce for the festival and its communication. Without a media outlet, it's the only way to shoot photos or video at the festival, aftermovie included.
Put yourself forward with the content team form. If you're affiliated with a media outlet, apply for accreditation instead with the media accreditation form.
Your request is logged as soon as you send it and will be reviewed, with no guarantee of selection or access. If you're picked, someone from the team will contact you directly.
Any collaboration, partnership (paid or unpaid) or invitation request to post on your own channels (UGC, Reels, TikTok, stories, Instagram posts…) goes through the creator collaboration form.
Want to produce content for the festival and its communication instead? Put yourself forward with the content team form.
The team reviews every request, accepts or declines it, and replies by email. Sending the form doesn't guarantee selection or access.
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